Offspring2099
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Hello good people of RabbitsOnline.net,
It's been good 3 years since Penny had any troubles at all, but she is in trouble now.
- Penny has had a long history of teeth issues. I'll try to summarize it.
- In '06 Penny had an abscess in her jaw, which was aggressive (lost 3 teeth).
- Penny's' incisors don't sharpen themselves, we have to trim them every 2 months.
- She has been off timothy hay for 5 years, and eats timothy hay pellets instead, along with other veggies.
In the last 2 months Penny started to eat less and less. Up to the point where she stopped eating.
We suspected a tooth issue and we were right, the vet removed another tooth around the old abscess area and said there was an infection.
It's been 2 and half weeks since the surgery and Penny will not eat her pellets. We are force feeding her 3-4 times a day, watered down pellets mush with critical care.
She is eating her veggies though. We used to put banana into wet pellets, but now she is not eating that. She is losing weight.
For the last week she is on two antibiotics now, because vet thinks she is in pain from infection (PenG, Baytril), Cisapride to help move her gi track, Metacam for pain.
It seems like we tried everything to trick her to eat pellets but she is still not eating. Tried watering it down and mixing it with canned pumpkin, bananas, apples, oats but no dice.
I think she has associated the pain to the pellets smell. Does anyone have any ideas of what to give her, to gain some weight?
Thank you in advance.
It's been good 3 years since Penny had any troubles at all, but she is in trouble now.
- Penny has had a long history of teeth issues. I'll try to summarize it.
- In '06 Penny had an abscess in her jaw, which was aggressive (lost 3 teeth).
- Penny's' incisors don't sharpen themselves, we have to trim them every 2 months.
- She has been off timothy hay for 5 years, and eats timothy hay pellets instead, along with other veggies.
In the last 2 months Penny started to eat less and less. Up to the point where she stopped eating.
We suspected a tooth issue and we were right, the vet removed another tooth around the old abscess area and said there was an infection.
It's been 2 and half weeks since the surgery and Penny will not eat her pellets. We are force feeding her 3-4 times a day, watered down pellets mush with critical care.
She is eating her veggies though. We used to put banana into wet pellets, but now she is not eating that. She is losing weight.
For the last week she is on two antibiotics now, because vet thinks she is in pain from infection (PenG, Baytril), Cisapride to help move her gi track, Metacam for pain.
It seems like we tried everything to trick her to eat pellets but she is still not eating. Tried watering it down and mixing it with canned pumpkin, bananas, apples, oats but no dice.
I think she has associated the pain to the pellets smell. Does anyone have any ideas of what to give her, to gain some weight?
Thank you in advance.